I AM intrigued with the viewpoints of Carl Richards and Mike Chalkley.
Despite both world and individual country populations increasing without limit, Carl thinks all we need to do is “take back control of energy”, as if in the days of nationalised gas and electricity boards the householder had any say on the efficiency of the industries or what the end-users paid.
What is “affordable sustainable energy”?
We will always need either fossil or nuclear-fuelled power stations to back up wind and solar power farms.
What he means by “exporting devastation” I do not know. If it is getting China to make things cheaply we should be making here in the UK for sale at proper prices, he may have a point. But nowhere does he mention the need to cut family sizes world-wide. Why?
Mike Chalkley wants East Way closed to protect the children at the adjacent schools. Yet, almost all of them either come and go by bus, or have to walk or cycle way beyond East Way to reach their homes.
Just what would East Way residents and school staff think of “turning it into a quiet safe cycling and walking route”? And if it were to open only on to Charminster Road, why should they have to drive so far to reach their homes and the school at the Castle Lane West end? Where would the school buses turn round?
And has he asked the emergency services for their thoughts?
Maybe all the traffic that now uses East Way should snake through Mallard Way and Seagull Road. What we have is an answer to a problem that does not exist.
Dodging cyclists who use the pedestrian parts of divided pavements is bad enough.
ERIC HAYMAN, Bournemouth
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